Posted by yxibow on February 18, 2009, at 0:39:46
In reply to Re: gabapentin, posted by bulldog2 on February 17, 2009, at 19:43:13
Gabapentin has diminishing returns after 600-900mg at a given dose 4x a day. Most of it is secreted back into the urine.
As noted before, until you have taken it a little bit the whole heavy machinery thing is due caution.
Some people may experienced blurred vision, equally others may not but experience it on its stronger cousin Lyrica.
Tolerance -- its not quite like the tolerance of benzodiazepines, but yes, if you take it for a period of time you probably could get used to some potentially odd startup effects like slurred speech and the like which goes away. (Just my own experience anyhow)
Hence, it may not prove to be a sleep medication or PRN anxiety agent quite like Xanax or the like (which of course has its own greater risk of tolerance of its own type).
-- Jay
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